No matchmaking with friends

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The games fast you just fucking suck

If the community makes enough of a fuss they'll fix it
Exactly. I can even see crazy shit being possible in Time Trials with the right loadouts.

That looks slow as fuck, Wipeout was more intense than that.

Wipeout only looks faster cause the camera work and the tracks are really fucking stretched out

What are the requirements for unlocking expert anyway? A lot of the pre-release stuff I saw had it locked for everyone. Yet I unlocked it after my first story race.

Oh, I see now. It's only for missions you've already done, so you're expected to do every mission twice. That's annoying.

>no DLC
with the current roster that's literal suicide

Every story mission that let's you change the difficulty has it locked at first, and you unlock it after you finish. But when you aren't playing the story you're allowed to play on Expert

i thought a rocket league styled party system was the entire point of making it so team based.

You don't have to do every mission twice, only if you need to grind for Stars do you need to replay any missions

>no DLC
source?

From Aaron Webber
Not if they price it at $10 and throw in stages plus characters a la MK8

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I mean, that's good and all. But the roster is still tiny as fuck.

So, you are telling me we are going to miss the only occasion we ever had to have Vanilla playable in a Sonic game?

Just gonna say that Sega also said they had no DLC plans for Sonic Mania and look how that turned out

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>Make a huge DLC bait games
>sorry guys, it won't have DLC, trust us!

Exactly. If they added more stages and characters I would definitely want to come back to this game
See Things could definitely change depending on reception and sales

>Mighty in front with Sonic and Knuckles
>Tails in the back with Ray
I get it's because of the way they play, but Tails not being with Sonic and Knuckles and Mighty not being with Ray bothers me.

you are looking too far into it.

lol

You actually bought it? We were all joking when we said it would be good OP.

> cannot find lobby
welp, way to kill it
also, can someone explain the defense stat

Defense affects your recovery time from getting spun out

WHO IS ON PC HERE

Are time trials still just one lap? Thats a shame

Yes there is you retards. Press R1 in the online menu and you can make a party.

me but there are only 3 people online
every lobby is the same 3
think i fucked up guys

there's no guarantee you'll be put in the same team as them, which i thought was the entire point of the game.

Yeah you are absolutely retarded if you thought it wouldn't be dead. Transformed instantly died on PC too.

That's not "no DLC", that's a very carefully worded statement that says they won't pull any day 1 DLC cut content bullshit but still leaves the possibility for DLC open without outright confirming it. Every other time they talk about DLC they say "no plans", not that it won't happen. I'll tell you right now, daddy Sega told the devs at sumo to get ready to make DLC at their command, but not to start because if this game's a flop they wanna just shut down development as quick as possible to save money.

>when it was revealed it looked like a shittier transformed
>as more footage came out it looked like a shittier transformed
>early release footage and reviews made it out to be a shittier transformed
>comes out
>its a shittier transformed

I have no idea why anyone was excited for this

Yeah, I don't buy the "no DLC" thing for a second

To be fair Transformed PC was released months after the console versions, there's a lot less interest for this game on all platforms

It's actually pretty fun to play

how do you go from Transformed to this? Transformed was inventive, imaginative and a massive Sega celebration. They completely gutted it and used the remains to cobble this thing together.

kek

Anyone else having issues with the controller on steam? Mines maping is all wrong, with square confirming, X canceling, up and down moving the camera to the sides and left and right moving it up and down

Blame Neofag from way back, for turning it into a fucking meme to complain about Sonic's friends.

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The courses are so banal compared to transformed, the only one that sticks out is the Planet Wisp one with the alien.

I mean the team stuff can be fun to use. It's really strategy based

SEGA didn't have plans
Forces was undergoing shit-show development and it wasn't going to kick it
Mania team were going to do Encore DLC regardless and eventually were given the greenlight thanks to Forces tanking

A good chunk of the courses were ripped striaght out of Transformed.

Actually no, one is from Transformed. The ones you're thinking of are from the first one, which many people seem to forget about.

oof

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Yea Forums was complaining about Sonic's friends back in 2006, newfriend.

>less content than transformed
>transformed is still on steam for way cheaper
>denuvo after how it fucked over Mania

Even the fucking spinoffs have less content than what came before it, wonder fucking full.

so, what platform are people playing this shit, i dont want to be alone

I didn't like the boating or flying in Transformed. I'm not sure how, but DKR did it better.

Glad I'm not missing out on anything.

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the boats needed better handling but flying i thought was refreshing.

I wonder how many people bitching
About the game have actually played it

boats are pretty rad when you manage to trick boost off of waves and shit. Race of Ages is the best track for that. It's just flying has risk boosts which are far less rng dependent.

Me too. Because honestly I'm having fun with my friend playing this game so far

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY ONLINE ON PC TRY RANKED TEAM GAMES
that's where i find lobbies with 8-10 people anyway im USE if that matters

for pc bros if you are going to buy it its cheaper on voidu over steam and even more so if you use "GAMINGTIME" coupon

not sure about all currencies but as an example £35 on steam to £25 on voidu with coupon

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PS4 for me

My friend and I were recently lamenting how there's no way this will be good as Transformed, but then he suggested we could whoop people's asses online as a team and I got hyped as fuck, so this is some serious bullshit if true.

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Don't have it yet but I'll probably pick it up soon

im playing right now, don't know how bad it is since its my first sonic racing game and i was aching for a kart game that wasn't Mario kart
online is kinda dead though, only complaint i have

Why the fuck are none of the new multiplayer modes in Smash Ultimate playable online FUCK

does this give a steam code?

The only real redeemable thing about the boosting mechanics in this is that if coordinated your team can go stupid fast by chaining the wake boosts off one another via leap frogging. I'm guessing they didn't want stomps utilizing this so no party matchmaking was implemented. So good luck getting teammates that aren't tards.

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yes

I like the game a lot. Feels very different to all stars racing, but better imo. The boost have a lot more weight to them and I'm glad we got a story mode.

I guarantee you're one of the absolute shitters stuck in 8th-12th place online.
I played for about 4hrs today and did around 30 races on ranked (both team and solo).
ONE person out of the 50+ people I versed was actually keeping up with me. Everyone else was crashing all the time or falling off the stage. I came in first in every solo race except 1 and my my team won every team race apart from when someone disconnected and the bot went all the way to 12th.
Every race except for 1 was me zooming off miles ahead while everyone else was bumping around like retards. I already know half of those people are gonna be on here going
>this game sucks
>its too slow. I can't go fast
Literally git gud. It's not as fast as Transformed but it's easily the 2nd fastest racing game. The difference is you have to earn the speed. The difficulty only slightly increases base speed. When you learn to do tricks at every small window and constantly get level 3 drifts the game doubles in speed.
This isn't even an opinion at this point. After witnessing how awful everyone is at driving I know for a fact the game only feels slow cos you suck ass at it.

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>Boosts have more weight to them over Transformed

Horseshit. Transformed's chain boosts were nuts. This game's boosts are like wet farts in comparison.

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Transformed chain boosts felt like someone just dialed up the speed with no consequences. The tracks were so wide and you could drift so easily that you could easily just race the whole track in boost mode.

Yeah but transformed does that but better so what's the fucking point. Transformed is more rewarding to get good at while also being faster and having overall better tracks and cast

Iizuka needs money to pay the dentist.

i like how lobbies auto fill with bots

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also that amy finish time
wtf

Boat handling is actually really good once you figure it out. The trick is to always be drifting and constantly level 1 boost to make your boat shoot in the direction you're facing instead of spinning out. I loved boat sections because I'd always get ahead of a few people in them.

Yes I know but that game has like 30 people playing it at max and they're all spics with 6000hrs played. Plus I've played each one of those tracks 50+ times. I don't know if you knew, but it's possible to enjoy a different game even if it isn't as good. I'm just happy to play a racing game that doesn't feel like crash/mario.
Everyone already knows transformed was peak racing kino. Why is it such a surprise that new racing games are worse? Everything is gonna be worse than transformed.

How's the netcode in this game. Do you become an astronaut if you bump someone from behind like you did in Transformed?

>I'm glad we got a story mode

Why?

Yeah I only ever remember getting physics'd by large rolling waves every now and then, (Race of AGES is where I got flung into the sky the most for whatever reason) but otherwise it's not as bad as people make them out to be.

the only netcode thing ive noticed is people's slipstreams becoming invisible or disjointed
disjointed is not an issue but invisibility sucks
happened only once tho out of like a dozen games

Is it time to recycle the old ASRT steam group for TSR?

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Because I enjoy playing through story modes in racing games either alone or with friends

Surprisingly good. Haven't had a single instance of people teleporting or inputs not being read. No lag at all either.

No, can we just play ASRT instead? I ain't buying this shit

One of my favorite things they did was having the ability to rack up bonuses and equip them before races, and being able to save a midair boost into a drift. Good stuff

Why not have both?

That has become the best new feature. It lets tiny jumps that in Transformed you only got a level 1 boost off become a way to near instantly get a level 3 boost if you time it right.
Market Street and Clockwork Pyramind have a few instances of such a thing being possible. Try to hit the jump just before a level 1 drift charges up, hold drift, do a sideways flip, and by the time you land the drift hits level 2 but the flip turns it into a level 3.

k. keep me posted

I'm getting a lot of mixed messages here, is it worth getting or not?

On ps4 it is.

on PC it is.

Link us lad, I'd be up for some ASRT

No

On Switch it is.

on the meat bone

Yes

Sonic Team doesn't care about Vanilla at all. Even if they expanded the roster, she wouldn't be included.

Anyone playing transformed on steam right now? Or does anyone want to get on and fill a public lobby up?

Thanks for the tips, one of my favorite shortcuts is in Ice Mountain where if you take the top route, you can fall off one of the curves and take the bottom path (but it doesnt always work well for me based on whether I'm lined up correctly or not)
Definitely gotta try all this tonight
My friend and I had a ton of fun playing it

There's two people in the steam group chat now. Link is in this guy's pic

Theres no need for some cringe group chat. No one is playing or ever plays, all we need to do is join a public game

Thanks for your opinion, no one cares.

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>Friends
Lol?

Lol enjoy not playing then

Yes friends user